It's not an Apple store. It's a Raspberry store. Furthermore, it's not a brick and mortar palace, but an online software repository. Besides, you're not locked in to using it, so no it is not completely contrary to the spirit of OSS. Anyone can "upload their own content for moderation and release".

Yes, because this absolutely, positively, most certainly prevents you from installing software from any other source.

Oh, wait, no it doesn't. All it does is allow you to download pre-compiled binaries from a central source. You are still able to pull the source code from the project and view/compile it yourself. So tell me, how does this violate the spirit of open source software? Or are you just inherently afraid of anything called an "App Store"?

Yes, marketing droid, aren't you hilarious? The fact that you don't have Aspergers clearly makes you a better person. Do you enjoy having to traipse through post after Aspie-ridden post, trying to come up with semi-relevant comments just so that you can earn your commission this month? Does it make you feel good that you have no profitable knowledge set other than proven effective methods of lying and trying to sway the opinion of weak-minded people?

Of course not. By the way, Windows 8 will be a success.Apple make some great hardware, no matter what you say about them.And Google are just cool.Also McDonalds do not make your kids fat. (Your kids make themselves fat by eating at McDonalds)

Well actually if they just had a big burger and water from their preferred fast food place then they wouldn't get fat:p fries and a soda every day will get the majority of people pretty fat though.

And what I was doing wasn't trolling. It was more like "flamebait" if you want to rate it by the Slashdot moderation system. Trolling generally involves making someone thing that you believe something that you don't really believe (and I don't just mean sarcasm) rather than simply being angry. I stand by what I s

Yes, because this absolutely, positively, most certainly prevents you from installing software from any other source.
Oh, wait, no it doesn't. All it does is allow you to download pre-compiled binaries from a central source. You are still able to pull the source code from the project and view/compile it yourself. So tell me, how does this violate the spirit of open source software? Or are you just inherently afraid of anything called an "App Store"?

It reminds me more of the redhat rpm repo than one of the app stores for mobile devices.

The system is brand new and it seems the app store service provider still has some details to work out about the licensing.

Liz, the head of the Raspbery Pi foundation, is aware of the issue and has already directly addressed it by saying there will be a fix in place by tomorrow to allow the app publishers to properly list the license their software is offered under.

I skimmed through the store, and it looks like most of what is up there is FOSS. I think the perceived value in such a "store" is not like that of the App Store or Google Play Store where it essentially represents the one place where you can go and get software, but instead represents a place where you can get software that is known to run well on the Raspberry Pi, which is very limited in resources compared to typical desktop computers.

OSS was never a primary goal of the Raspberry Pi. Education is. They're quite happy for people to be doing what they like with the device (including commercial applications), so long as the Foundation can keep turning their sales into more devices for schools.

The Raspberry Pi as it is today, i.e. underpowered and broken, will never achieve much success in the education sector. The number of Pi's sold to schools so far has been absolutely insignificant. Lack of hardware hasn't been a real problem in those areas for many years anyway and its never been the main problem. The main problem has been and still is insufficient numbers of appropriately skilled teachers. The Raspberry Pi can't solve that.

I take Japanese, with its far simpler syllable structure than English, as a measure of how non-English speakers are likely to distort something's pronunciation. Japanese speakers pronounce raspberry as ra-zu-be-ri-i, and ra-zu-bi-a-n doesn't sound any harder.

Excatly. Debian is very late to the party with one of these "App Stores". It's a pity because it's good to have access to a large, easy to install, curated repository of quality apps. I think it's sad that Debian deel the need to shamelessly copy Apple in this way.

They could at least distinguish themselves by using a different name. Perhaps they could call them packages. Then they'd need some kind of Advanced Tool to install said Packages.

They could at least distinguish themselves by using a different name. Perhaps they could call them packages. Then they'd need some kind of Advanced Tool to install said Packages.

Maybe even take it further and compose the system of various little packages so that each individual library can be updated discretely. And then one simple command to upgrade the whole system if requested. That would be awesome!

Let me know when "regular apt repo" supports authentication, which would allow paid downloads of certain types of software [pineight.com] that inherently don't mesh well with the free software movement or open source methodology.

The Windows, OSX and Android ecosystems are infested with a culture of greed and egoism. Pay $10 for DVD-burning software, $15 for an archive program, $120 for anti-virus, $50 for an SSH client/server, $40 for a media player, and so on and so on.

If I can contribute to the community in some way, and get free and libre software in return, that seems like a much better deal for everybody. But by all means, if somebody wants to put energy into a distribution which mimics the money culture of Windows and OSX,

You can blame the companies that license the patents in MPEG-2 visual and Dolby Digital audio and the patents and trade secrets in the DVD-Video system for the fact that there's no legit free DVD-Video authoring solution.

$120 for anti-virus

Even if the scanning software is based on a free engine, how else is one supposed to finance continuing updates to definitions?

$40 for a media player

Here again, you can blame MPEG-LA, Dolby, DVD FLLC, Blu-ray Disc Association, and other holders of patents and trade secrets.

If I can contribute to the community in some way, and get free and libre software in return

You're absolutely right, a lot of this is due to the patent and copyright shenanigans of the major industry players. They commit fraud and treason against society in broad daylight. So if there was software "that is acceptable to the six major motion picture distributors", I would reject it on principle. Example: I have never, and will never, buy anything related to BluRay.

As for the tax software, I'm not quite sure what you get from the accounting firms. A list of loopholes? Just some slightly more frien

The studios have already phased out VHS, and they're starting to phase out DVD as well: Ishtar skipped DVD and went straight to Blu-ray. So when the studios phase out DVD, do you plan to stop watching movies?

As for the tax software, I'm not quite sure what you get from the accounting firms. A list of loopholes?

What you get from Intuit and H&R Block is a machine-readable version of the latest tax code in the form of an expert system [wikipedia.org] that makes sure you haven't missed any required fields or the most commonly used loopholes and makes sure that your calculations are correct.

In the various countries that I have filled in taxes, the software I used was free of charge

Well, what I wish for already exists, with millions of people benefiting and contributing to many thousand free and open source projects all over the world. If you were not aware of that, I'd suggest you download one of the common GNU/Linux distributions (it's for free), and give it a go. Try to apt-get, or similar, any application you'd like to use, and it will be installed within seconds, without any other action or transaction needed on your part. Even after nearly two decades, the efficiency and quality

To the casual, new-to-linux users, a "store" is going to be less scary and less intimidating than going through apt-get. Adding the store has not taken away the option of going through the repositories, just added another way of putting extra software on your RasPi.

That said, I'm not particularly impressed with the current selection of "apps" - even if it has a great time waster available in FreeCiv.

If you want to be accessible to younger users, you have to go with models they are familiar with. This platform is targeted towards younger users. An App Store is something they can understand because they've likely had exposure to it.

Not working is relative. Raspberry Pi has some issues (for me the main issue seems to be the low powered USB port which in practise requires using it with a powered USB hub), but it seems to work better than I imaged it would work. And it might have some compatibility problems (sometimes I have had to remove and then re-insert an USB device to make it work) with some devices.

So far, I haven't tried any torture tests or used oscilloscope to check if I am able to detect stuttering when using USB sound card. H